Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is the first West Coast survey of the internationally renowned Swiss media artist. Rist’s installations explore relationships of video and the body; exterior environments and interior psychological landscapes; and reason and instinct. The exhibition surveys more than thirty years of the Zürich-based artist’s work, encompassing early single-channel videos; large-scale installations brimming with color and hypnotic musical scores; and sculptures that merge everyday objects, video, and decorative forms.
For this iteration of her ongoing work The Innocent Collection (1985 - ca. 2032), PipilottiRist invited MOCA staff to help her collect used objects free of labels, logos, or other signs of commercialism. She then affixed the items to this gallery wall at the entrance to The Geffen Contemporary, giving the discarded materials a new life. The Innocent Collection (1985 - ca. 2032) is now on view in Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at The Geffen Contemporary.
Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor is on view September 12, 2021 - June 5, 2022. This exhibition is organized by Anna Katz, Curator, with Karlyn Olvido, Curatorial Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now at moca.org.
Music: Wonder Happens by Podington Bear. Licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is the first West Coast survey of the internationally renowned Swiss media artist. Rist’s installations explore relationships of video and the body; exterior environments and interior psychological landscapes; and reason and instinct. The exhibition surveys more than thirty years of the Zürich-based artist’s work, encompassing early single-channel videos; large-scale installations brimming with color and hypnotic musical scores; and sculptures that merge everyday objects, video, and decorative forms.
For this iteration of her ongoing work The Innocent Collection (1985 - ca. 2032), PipilottiRist invited MOCA staff to help her collect used objects free of labels, logos, or other signs of commercialism. She then affixed the items to this gallery wall at the entrance to The Geffen Contemporary, giving the discarded materials a new life. The Innocent Collection (1985 - ca. 2032) is now on view in Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at The Geffen Contemporary.
Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor is on view September 12, 2021 - June 5, 2022. This exhibition is organized by Anna Katz, Curator, with Karlyn Olvido, Curatorial Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now at moca.org.
Music: Wonder Happens by Podington Bear. Licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
